Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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    The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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